Excellent. Story of a lifelong criminal trying to scrounge up money in one night to bail out his brother. The story [i]never[/i] goes where you think it’s going to, so many fun surprises and moments. Great performances all around, and Pattinson nails the manipulative crime guy part. He’s really done good to shed the Twilight stigma, taking all these indy roles. Just a blast of a movie, if you enjoy watching shitty people do shitty things. Found myself rooting for these pieces of shit.

Now streaming on ‘zon Prime.

4.5 / 5

The Shape of Water

Saw this before the Oscars, so expectations weren’t as high as they’d be if I saw it after knowing it was Best Picture, but they were still high going in. This was just a bunch of meh for me. Not getting the resounding praise. It all feels like stuff we’ve seen before, even thought I can’t pinpoint exactly where. It’s good, it’s fine, but it doesn’t bring anything unexpected. If you watch the trailer, you know everything that’s going to happen. I’d usually blame that kind of thing on the trailer, but there’s nothing they could work with here to keep things surprising.

Hawkins was amazing though. A little confused on the nomination for Spencer just playing a walking sassy stereotype. I guess she’s in the class now where if she gives an above average performance in a prestige pic she’ll get a nod.

The most useless avenger (Jeremy Renner) stars as a fish and game warden that is asked to help in an investigation related to a body he finds out in the tundra. The dead girl is an injun that was obviously chased out into the cold barefoot and beaten. The movie intertwines between the reservation and a man camp for oil workers. Decent little crime thriller. The Gerry recommends.

tbf, I’ve not seen any of them. I don’t get to the cinema much, don’t have that much time to spare to watch a genre I’m not particularly bothered by, so my only exposure to the Marvel thing is Jessica Jones.